The Nintendo announcement rocked the Mario Kart fanbase: The Free Roam mode of Mario Kart World will literally give you a go-anywhere playground. No cruising about on roads? That’s much too hard! And gamers everywhere are swooning.

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Off-the-wall clips showing karts racing through meadows, beaches, and terrains off-road cooling on Nintendo’s official Twitter very much promoted the freedom of movement-view: No invisible walls, no “turn back now” signs for mature viewers-those be wild winds of liberty. Think of it as Mario Kart meets Forza Horizon, if not counting a bazillion banana peels and blue shells.

As replies swirl, the hype among fans grows. Others immediately connect it with that sort of open-world thing like Diddy Kong Racing – a cult classic with secret hidden races and hidden areas. One user reminisced about inventing games within the open world of Diddy Kong Racing. One such game was hide-and-seek for karts, something that sounds just like the kind of mad chaos that folks will recreate inside Mario Kart World.

But then, others were not really swayed. They considered it to be a “thing nobody asked for,” while others pondered if the mode would work with local co-op (because, really, Mario Kart is finger-pointing-at-each-other-in-hysterics-on-the-couch fun). Naturally, that one’s gonna evolve into, if all this is justification enough for the asking price of the game, with one doubter calling Nintendo filthy greedy for… making a game with more features? Well then.

Meanwhile, Donkey Kong addicts are already going all nuts with anticipation for the upcoming Donkey Kong Bonanza, where one player vowed to free-roam as DK alone. And honestly? That’s what I like to hear.

The massive question curling on everyone’s lips thus is: What happens when you hit the edge of the world? Does your kart just… stop? Glitch into the void? Nintendo has been saying nothing so far, but it wouldn’t surprise me if those players will be testing it on day one.

Oh, and to all those Forza Horizon fanboys arguing in the replies about whose game has the better open world-take a deep breath. Mario Kart doesn’t want to be a simulator; it just wants to be stupid fun. Given how reactions are going, I think it might be succeeding.

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No word on when it may be released, but judging from all this hype, Nintendo must really be bursting in anticipation to throw out a big announcement pretty soon. Until then, we’ve got some time to burn just perfecting those dirt drifts. Chaos awaits.